Patient Search Criteria

Abstract

Once a patient is created, the system allows retrieving them through either their patient id or name. coreapps has a client side approach to searching by gender and age once a name or id is entered more or less filter by the 2. This project aims at doing server side patient searching using any or more than one search criterias; such as name, id, gender, dob/age etc.

Requirements

• Good Java and JavaScript skills
• Soft skills to interact with the community in order to gather requirements and technical feedback

Skills Needed

• Java
• JavaScript
• HTML
• CSS
• Rest
• MySQL
• Good understanding of Spring framework and OpenMRS API
• Lucene

Objectives

• Investigate possible usage of lucene in this project
• Create PatientSearchCriteria supporting the 2 current ones id/name
• Support search by gender
• Support search by dob
• Support search by either or all of id,name,age,dob
• Add rest interface to interact with the search engine developed above
• Add supported criterias onto the patient search page in reference application

Extra Credit

• Reach out to the community and support any other search criterias besides age and gender of their preference.

Resources

• https://talk.openmrs.org/t/design-forum-to-discuss-more-patientsearch-filters/19700/3
• 2018-09-12 Design Forum
• https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-patientsearchcriteria/pull/1
• https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-core/pull/2980
• https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-coreapps/pull/219